"It wasn't threatening as much as pestering." Sera Fina withdraws her finger, putting them else where aside from the egg and the owl. "I shall attempt to be more persuasive."

"Egg child, I am no threat to the egg. You may be obligated to protect the egg but rest assured If I want to touch the egg I will. You know what might happen to you if you get in my way." Dramatically the flames flare up.

Enkindel sighs, rubbing his temples. "No, see, now you're threatening it. Imagine the owl is three times your size and made of asbestos. You can't threaten it, its not afraid of you. How do you get what you want out of it?"

"I'm sure I can incinerate something three times my size..." But she looked worried and not at all confident she could take something down that big. "I offer it a deal? If it allows me to do something, I'll do something for it? Or not do something to it?"

"That's one way of going about it. Find out what they want more than what you want, and see if you can get it for them. And if you can't, see if you can't haggle them down to something you can give them."